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Sun Dried Potato Chips | How To Make Aloo Chips +video

2019-04-03 by Anjana Chaturvedi

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Sun dried Potato Chips- Homemade and delicious!

Sun dried Potato Chips- In my maternal home arrival of summer starts with making sun dried items and pickles. I have so many fond memories of my childhood summer afternoons spent helping my grandmother and mother in making different types of frymes, papad and vadis.

They both are experts in making these home made aloo papad and aloo chips .Our big terrace was fully covered with so many muslin sarees on which Aloo papad , sabudana papad and Moong daal vadies are spread to dry in the heat and then in the evening we again go to the terrace to turn the semi dried papads and often while making Aloo Papad the feast begins from the starting, where me and my sisters will start eating the yummy spiced up potato mash while making the papads and then start eating the semi dry papad when we go to turn all the papads in late afternoons .

But the love and interest of making papad and vadis is still in me so though there are so many variety easily available in the market but I still love to make my own batch every year.This year my daughter also helped me in making papad, kachri and sun dried potato chips which makes me so happy to see that she has also inherited this interest 🙂

Sun dried Potato chips are made in two patterns ,one is plain sliced and one is with the crisscross pattern . For making the crisscross pattern you need a potato slicer with a serrated blade but you can make the plain one with any potato slicer, mandolin, with a food processor or even with a sharp knife. I like to use a sharp knife to cut the potatoes, but it’s up to you. Speaking of knives, I recently got mine sharpened and they work so much better now! If you’re looking at getting your knives sharpened, check out GoSharpening @ NYC. With my newly sharpened knives, I can cut potatoes with ease!

After slicing, the chips should be washed thrice to remove the starch completely and then blanched in hot water. It is preferred to dry them in direct sunlight but you can also dry them inside a room like I did. Try to choose good quality, fresh, white and starchy potatoes – as the quality of potatoes also effects the quality and colour of the potato chips.

I have also posted the recipe of making –

  • Aloo ke papad and Aloo sev.
  • Sooji Papad
  • Moong Daal Mangodi

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4 from 5 votes

Sun Dried Potato Chips

 Potato Chips from Scratch – Homemade and delicious!
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time10 minutes mins
Total Time30 minutes mins
Course: Home made, snacks/starters, Sundried
Cuisine: Indian, North Indian Cuisine
Keyword: aloo chips, potato chips, sun dried
Author: Anjana Chaturvedi

Ingredients

  • 2 kg Potatoes
  • To Taste Salt
  • I/4 tsp Alum Powder / Phitkari
  • 2 Tsp Red Chili Powder To Sprinkle
  • 1 Serrated Potato Slicer/ Mandolin
  • Muslin cloth OR Plastic Sheet
  • Enough Cooking Oil To deep fry

Instructions

  • Wash and peel the potato skin (peeling is optional and depends on personal choice)
  • Fill enough water in a large pot and add alum powder in it and mix wel
  • With the the help of potato chips slicer start making chips.
    For the crisscross pattern you have to use the serrated potato slicer which I have shown in the picture.
  • To make crisscross pattern first you have to put peeled potato on the slicer and then slice a chip by applying slight pressure on it.
  • Then for the next chips slightly twist the potato and make the next slice .
    So keep twisting the direction of potato after every chips.
  • If you want to make plain chips then you can use any normal potato slicer or a sharp knife.
  • Keep soaking all the potato chips in the water filled bowl in which you have mixed alum for about an hour.
  • When you finished making all the chips then drain the water and wash the chips three times in fresh water so that all excess starch is removed and on your last rinse you will see the water will be clear unlike the prior washes where the water will have milky traces of starch.
  • Boil enough water in a big pan and add some salt (enough to make the water taste salty) and a pinch of alum powder.
  • When water starts to boil add the drained potatoes in it.
  • Keep stirring gently till the water starts boiling again (about 2-3 minutes)
  • Drain the blanched potato chips over a colander to drain all the water.
  • Spread hot chips on a muslin cloth in a single layer,avoid overlapping.
  • They will dry in about 2 days time or depending on the heat in the climate
  • When they become dry and crisp store in a air tight jar and use till they last.

How to serve-

  • Heat enough oil in a big,deep and wide pan.
  • When the oil is hot add some sun dried chips and fry on medium heat. 
  • Drain on a paper towel to remove the excess oil.
  • Sprinkle a dash of chili powder or chat masala and serve

Notes

Note-
  1. Try to choose big, round,white and even size potatoes to make chips.
  2. Alum is added to make chips white in colour as some times potato chips turn slightly black after drying.But don’t add too much else the chip may become red while frying.
  3. Peeling potato or not depends on your preference ,but I always peel potatoes before making chips.
  4. You can add any spice of your choice on the fried chips, you can add dry mint powder, mango powder, black salt, roasted cumin powder, dry tomato powder, chat masala on fried chips to enhance the flavour.
  5. Sliced potatoes should be completely submerged in water to avoid discoloration.
  6. Some times sweet variety of potatoes makes the chips red so choose a good variety of potato.
  7. Adding salt in the water is optional ,you can also sprinkle salt after deep frying,but I prefer to do this way.

Filed Under: Just Home made, North Indian Food, Starter/snacks, Uttar Pradesh Cuisine Tagged With: Aloo, aloo chips, chips, fried, homemade, Indian, potato, potato wafers, snack, Sun dried, wafers

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Comments

  1. Mahendra Chawan says

    2018-04-28 at

    Superb article. I will try it soon and will share my experience.

  2. bhavani says

    2018-04-21 at

    For one kg potatoes how much alum should be added .thank you

    • anjanaskc says

      2018-04-22 at

      use 1/2 tsp alum powder

  3. Geeta says

    2018-03-14 at

    For making potato chips sun dried instead of alum powder or vinegar can we use lemon juice

    • anjanaskc says

      2018-03-16 at

      alum powder is the best option but you can try using lemon juice

  4. Payal says

    2017-01-04 at

    Thanks for reviving my childhood memories!! We have all grown up taking these for granted, and now that I’m married and in the USA, I miss it! A doubt, Can we bake the dry chips instead if deep frying?? Thanks and regards!

    • anjanaskc says

      2017-01-04 at

      Thanks Payal !yes you can bake these chips in oven, you can brush them lightly with oil if you wish.

  5. Branden says

    2016-05-26 at

    Hi…would like to know where can i get the “serrated potato slicer”? thanks for helping

    • anjanaskc says

      2016-05-26 at

      Hi Branden
      I brought this serrated potato slicer from Indian but you can easily use your mandoline slicer for it.

  6. naumankhan says

    2016-05-03 at

    my mother is trying to make them and she is having a hard time making them white….everytime she fries them they turn red…what might be the reason….to much alum or ripen potatoes or something else…she has wasted neary 20 kg of potatoes to achieve white chips

    • anjanaskc says

      2016-05-06 at

      Hi Naumankhan-may be your mother have used too much alum or may be the potatoes are on sweeter side ,so try to get good quality of potatoes to make potato chips.

  7. Chowringhee Lane says

    2015-04-30 at

    I am so glad I found your site! Your blog is absolutely gorgeous – the food and the photography.
    Chowringhee

  8. Veena says

    2015-04-26 at

    I went back to my childhood days after reading this post.
    Prepartion of papads and badis were made with help from neighbouring ladies who came to roll out the papads. (papad bealana)
    We little girls used to roll out small pooris from the loiee and the aunties used to roll them big and thin.There used to be so much of chatting and fun.
    The best part for us girls used to be the tea and snacks which were served during the breaks 🙂

    It also reminds me of Khicha papad. pls post the recipe for that too.

    I love these chips but have not made them for a long time. After reading this post I want to make it this summer.

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